<p><LINK href="notes.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> <SPAN class="panel-title"> Our Monsters, Ourselves -- FogCon 2012</span> <span class="dateline">31.03.2012 21.30h</span></p>
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Vampries
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Zombies
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Werewolves
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Monsters
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Vampires in modern urban fantasy seem to reflect contemporary Western bodily obsessions: they're all thin, pale, good-looking, and we never see them eat solid food. Zombies, on the other hand, seem to refect a different set of body anxieties. What do the monsters in our contemporary fiction say about how we think about our bodies?
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<li>Chaz Brenchly</li>
<li>Jay Ridler</li>
<li>Eric Zuckerman (Mod)</li>
<li>Lori Selke
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<h2 id="bibliography">Bibliography</h2>
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<li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Werewolf-Montague-Summers/dp/0766132102/">Sommers, Montague. Werewolf</a> a collection of folk stories</li>
<li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Dr-Jekyll-Hyde-Signet-Classics/dp/0451528956/">Stevenson, Robert Louis. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Werewolves-Martin-H-Greenberg/dp/0886776546/">Braunbeck, Gary. Some Touch of Pity</a> horrific story of rape, story of trying to find peace, get away from abuse.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Jungle-Book-Classic-Starts/dp/1402745761/">Kipling, Rudyard. The Jungle Book</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/ASIMOVS-SCIENCE-FICTION-Time-Out-Bangkok/dp/B000JNC5NI/">Charnas, Suzy. Boobs</a> female puberty and werewolf transformation.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Bloodchild-other-Stories-Octavia-Butler/dp/1888363363/">Butler, Octavia. Bloodchild</a> pregnant man story</li>
<li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Blood-Music-Greg-Bear/dp/0759241740/">Bear, Greg. Blood Music</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/More-Than-Human-Theodore-Sturgeon/dp/0375703713/">Sturgeon, Ted. More Than Human</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Breathers-Zombies-S-G-Browne/dp/0767930614/">Browne, S.G. Breathers: A Zombie's Lament</a> a sympathetic, first person zombie protagonist, who is ostracized for disability</li>
<li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Marvel-Boy-Grant-Morrison/dp/0785134409/">Morrison, Grant. Marvel Boy</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Sensation-Spectacular-Fiction-Nick-Mamatas/dp/1604863544/">Mamatas, Nick. Sensation</a> parasites controlling our behavior</li>
<li><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096071/">Craven, Wes (Director). The Serpent and the Rainbow</a> using percieved status to scare people.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1349938/">BBC TV. Being Human</a> A werewolf has the fear of contagion.
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<h2 id="notes">Notes</h2>
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<p>Classic favorites in monster fiction</p>
<p>Werewolves are about duality -- something coming.</p>
<p>What Stoker wrote about Dracula is not what we have seen in movies, which meld folklore with Stoker's work.</p>
<p>New vampires are not creatures of terror -- which was their greatest strength (v. wish fullfilment/dream date). Vampires as primal evil was lost in favor of a 'super hero' role.</p>
<p>&quot;90% of Sturgeon's Law is crap&quot;</p>
<p>The beautiful and and advantaged, are not interesting</p>
<p>Vampires could be seen as a 'gateway monster' to more interesting ones.</p>
<p>Zombies are &quot;in your face&quot; and not wish fullfillment.</p>
<p>The &quot;Autonomy Model&quot; -- Zombies represent the loss of self will, they are controlled by someone else, it relates to identity issues. (Mankurt?)</p>
<p>&quot;Mid-period&quot; zombies (1950's?) represented radiation fears</p>
<p>If you relate to the old someone, and someone's changed a lot, you meust learn to deal with the new them.</p>
<p>Violence has a price, emotionally and phsycially. If you don't treat it seriously, you are shortchaning it.</p>
Chaz wants to write about the social dynamics of werewolves.
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